Five Useful Interactive CSS/jQuery Techniques Deconstructed
Some nice (and most importantly useful!) trickery with CSS and jQuery.
Showcase of Creative Navigation Menus: Good and Bad Examples
I have to say, my favorite is “Ben the Bodyguard”.
CSS Floats 101
Anybody just starting to learn HTML and CSS, floats are probably one of the hardest things to get your head around. A List apart have put together this little article to explain it and help you master it.
The @Font-Face Rule and Useful Web Font Tricks
We’ve been using these techniques for around 18 months, along with several client websites we’ve also used it on our own House of Type website.
Nice to see a fairly easy to follow guide on how to use more fonts on the web.
CSS Specific for Internet Explorer
A nice tip, an oldie but a goldie.. mainly for this reason:
As much as we don’t like to deal with the IE bugs, we still have to face it because your boss and visitors are still using Explorer. It gets frustrating when different versions of Explorer displays web pages differently due to the inconsistent rendering engine.
Thankfully the newer versions of Internet Explorer don’t tend to be that much of a problem.
Native CSS Variables: Welcomed Addition or Huge Mistake?
A nice little tutorial on CSS variables. However, it’s trying to ask the question as to whether this should be a welcome addition to CSS, I personally feel it is.
HTML5 Grayscale Image Hover
HTML5 keeps making things easier.
HTML5 and CSS3 Without Guilt
Not every HTML5 or CSS3 feature has widespread browser support, naturally. To compensate for this, enterprising developers have created a number of tools to let you use these technologies today, without leaving behind users who still live in the stone age.
WordPress Rolls Out New HTML5-Friendly Theme
It’s nice to see one of the biggest CMS / Blogging platforms out there trying to encourage more HTML5 and CSS3 usage.
Why We Should Start Using CSS3 and HTML5 Today
Another post promoting HTML5 and CSS3 to everyone, and telling us why we should all be using it.
Sometimes it feels that we are hiding behind the lack of cross-browser compatibility to avoid learning new techniques that would actually dramatically improve our workflow. And that’s just wrong. Without an adjustment, we will continue to undersell the Web we have, and the landscape will remain unexcitingly stale and bound by this underestimation and mindset.
I couldn’t agree more.